CVE-2012-1179

Severity :

Medium

Published :

2012-05-17

Modified :

2013-01-23

Base Score :

5.2

Details :

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.